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Cerberus Capital Management just put $100 million into a battery company. Not a developer. Not an IPP. Not an OEM. All three, in one entity. The vehicle is Frontier Power USA, a new long-duration storage platform built around Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.'s American-made zinc-bromide batteries. A 2 GWh firm capacity reservation is already in place. 5 GWh is under active development. 20 GWh sits in the identified pipeline. The structure is the signal. Frontier Power USA collapses what has historically been three separate entities into one. The OEM, the developer, and the IPP, all integrated. Direct access from cell IP through software architecture. Institutional capital separating from the manufacturer's corporate balance sheet, but inside the same operating tent. Why now: FEOC pressure and supply chain risk make third party assembled supply chains harder to finance. Institutional capital wants delivery certainty. The answer being underwritten by Cerberus is vertical integration, and it is American made by default. What this means for hiring: Frontier is hiring from day one. A CEO who can run both capital and execution. Origination and structuring leaders to convert a 25 GWh pipeline into bankable projects. Long duration deployment engineers with zinc chemistry exposure, a specialist talent pool that is small, growing, and now being bid against hyperscalers. The hiring window opened the day Cerberus signed. What do you see as the bigger constraint over the next 24 months: capital, manufacturing capacity, or the people who can deliver gigawatt-scale LDES? If you are building a US-made long duration storage team, get in touch with Joseph Abson-Bennett: joseph@sourcechange.com or Cassie William: cassie@sourcehcange.com #BESS #EnergyStorage #LDES #Sourcechange

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A Director of Interconnection role pays between $200K and $230K base. That's a $30K spread for the same title. The bands are wide enough that where you sit inside them matters more than which band you're in. Base comp for senior interconnection leaders in US power infrastructure has moved roughly 40% in two years. The headlines get the attention. The variance inside the bands gets ignored. Sitting on the recruiting side, the more useful question is what puts a candidate at the top of their range versus the bottom. Four things, consistently. Named queue wins. Specific projects steered from cluster study through energization, with the ISO and the cost allocation outcome on the record. Generic transmission experience pays mid-band. Closed queues pay top. Multi-ISO fluency. Candidates who've executed in two or more of ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, SPP price higher than single-ISO specialists. Developers are expanding portfolios across regions and they want one hire, not three. Affected system study experience. Few people have lived through one end to end. Demand is structural. It is the clearest premium signal in the data. Counterpart-level relationships with utility transmission planning teams. Not vendor-level. Not "I've been on calls with them." Names, history, trust. This is the line between a manager who runs the process and a leader who can change the outcome. Title and tenure don't move the number. Specifics do. Building an interconnection function or evaluating where you sit in the range? Cameron Edwards is the person to talk to. cameron@sourcechange.com #interconnection #transmission #BESS #powerinfrastructure #salarybenchmark #sourcechange

Three energy infrastructure IPOs hit the market in one week. The last sustained public-market window for energy infrastructure closed in 2022. Fervo Energy priced at $1.89 billion this week. INNIO Group filed for Nasdaq with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley as joint leads, on a 44 GW installed base of gas engines. WhiteHawk Energy filed for NYSE with 2025 revenue of $67.6 million and royalty exposure to roughly 13% of US natural-gas production. Tim Latimer, Fervo's CEO, earlier this year: "We've been incredibly lucky. It's one thing to get lucky on timing, but it's another to make sure you don't ruin the opportunity." What this means for hiring: Public capital reopens hiring at scale. Fervo's raise underwrites a 500 MW geothermal buildout: Drilling Engineers, Development Managers, EPC Leads, and Commercial Origination Managers. INNIO's listing accelerates US gas-engine deployment: US Sales Leaders, Application Engineers, and Project Finance Managers across the Jenbacher and Waukesha portfolios. The companies that staff up to deploy this capital will set the pace. If you are hiring senior project finance, capital markets, or commercial origination talent for an energy IPO ramp, reach out to Jeb Punter directly: jeb@sourcechange.com. #powerinfrastructure #projectfinance #firmpower #sourcechange

Geothermal is moving from technology build-out to commercial deployment. That shift changes what good finance leadership looks like. We just placed a CFO into a venture-backed geothermal platform in Houston. The client had raised fresh capital to scale its development arm after years building the technology foundation. The hire was about getting the product into the ground. Running finance inside a venture-stage platform that's also deploying real infrastructure assets is an unusual profile. Most CFOs have operated on one side of that line or the other, not both. What made the search work was knowing the market. Knowing which finance leaders had operated in both worlds, and which of them were ready to move. Specialization isn't a tagline. It's knowing the ten people who could actually do the job. Hiring senior finance leadership in energy infrastructure? Get in touch with Jeb Punter directly: jeb@sourcechange.com #sourcechange #geothermal #energyinfrastructure #executivesearch #CFO

A single US search we ran this quarter generated 45+ candidate rejections on salary alone. Same role, same spec. Each rejection landed at first call, before strategy, title or relocation came up. It is not isolated. Across our active US mandates, the most common reason a qualified candidate exits a process right now is compensation. Not relocation. Not title. Not strategy fit. Cash. What clients are telling us: "We benchmarked the role last year." What candidates are telling us: "That number was the floor in 2024." Both are correct. That is the problem. The searches that close fastest are the ones where budget is on par with the market, with flexibility built in from the start. The searches that stall are the ones priced to a benchmark from a year ago. If you are running a US BESS or utility-scale storage hire and finalists keep walking at offer stage, the issue is almost never culture. Are the comp bands you set 12 months ago still closing offers? If you're hiring senior commercial, development, or project finance leaders for a US storage build, we can show you what the market is actually paying. hello@sourcechange.com #BESS #energystorage #compensationstrategy #powerinfrastructure #salary

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Market signal worth paying attention to in U.S. utility-scale storage: Three weeks ago, FERC cleared Longroad's 500 MW BESS interconnection with Southern California Edison. This week, the California Energy Commission cleared Soda Mountain. 300 MW of solar, 1.2 GWh of battery storage, $700 million in San Bernardino County. Two major utility-scale storage clearances in three weeks. The CEC has now used its fast-track Opt-In Certification program twice. The pattern: California's regulatory machinery is starting to move at the pace of build-out, not the pace of review. Permitting is no longer the bottleneck. The talent layer is. When permitting compresses, hiring becomes the new critical path. Interconnection specialists with CAISO and SCE transmission experience hold the queue. Project managers, EPC leads, and commissioning engineers need to be locked in before construction starts, not after. Queue position determines schedule. Hiring determines queue position. Hiring for interconnection, transmission, or BESS execution roles in #CAISO? Reach out to Cameron Edwards directly: cameron@sourcechange.com. #BESS #EnergyStorage #Interconnection #GridInfrastructure #Sourcechange